Confluence Collective

WHAT A GOOD GAY TO GO FISHING: it is pride month and generally, an unreasonably busy time for anyone q***r. Include us in that 🌈 burn out 🌈 AND we still have exciting and joyful celebrations to share with one another. Amidst Campout preparations and other events, here’s your new favorite fishing shirt!
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Indulging their inner child, Bri Dostie designed this 90s nostalgia meets kitschy pop art shirt of a utopian river ecosystem, centering a very rainbow trout and friends such as the fanciest cases caddis to grace the freestone. Far from subtle, we reiterate that every body belongs on the water, and should have access to affirming, joyful community spaces above and below the surface of the current.
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This post was hard to write! Capitalism and wh1te supr3macy have become so much of what folks know “Pride” to be. Confluence Collective is a “q***r, and” kind of group. These spaces aren’t the 🌈✨💕 Learn From One Another/Yay Diversity! 💕✨🌈 kind of places to learn a prescribed way of being a Good Ally. These are spaces to build community. Our humanity and liberation is tied to one another. So yes, sharing space as a diverse group of humans is to learn from one another, but also to take on injustices as our own, working together to improve the world around us in community. (Visit our FAQ page for more)

We share these products as affirming expressions of joy, which is a vulnerable thing to do. We expect our community to honor the beautiful, multidimensional, and diverse human experiences we are all on, knowing it’s all the more wonderful because we’re all here. We rely on and contribute to community support while we continue to work together to disrupt and dismantle. We hold thoughtful space and prioritize joy. We all need it, and have much to learn about ourselves, and one another, at the water.
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Because this year is also not subtle in its inequity, fearful violence, and bigotry, we hope this emboldens you and empowers you to speak up for equitable human rights and an end to genoc1de.

It’s time!!! 2025 Maine Outcast Campout registrations are open! Check out the website to learn more about it, select your sliding scale rate, and let us know if you need gear — every body belongs on the water and we’re planning to have a gay ol’ time in the mountains 🏕️

Learn more here: https://www.confluencecollective.org/shop/p/2025maineoutcast